Re: [Devel] A question concerning the freetype licence

[Vadim Plessky]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 7:18 pm, Erwin Hoegerl wrote:
|  Dear Sirs,
|
|  I'm examine the freetype font renderer for potential use in a commercial
|  project.
|
|  I' dealing with the following configuration: A Linux-system with installed
|  freetype library as provided
|  by freetype.org or the linux distribution, dynamically linked by the
|  application, without any modification in the freetype library.
|  The application itself is part of an embedded, proprietary machine control
|  system.
|  The application will not be distributed as stand-alone program.
|
|  I'm not really sure about some issues concerning the FreeType License and
|  the GPL.
|  As I understood the GPL, when I'm using the freetype library, I have to
|  release for public the whole source code of my application.

FreeType comes with BSD-like license, it's not so restrictive as GPL.
So you don't need to release your code if it uses FreeType library.

|  But after reading the FreeType License, it not sure about this demand.
|  Making the source code of our project public would be a strong reason for
|  not using the freetype library.
|
|  Can you clarify this licence issue?

I think David Turner can tell you more if you are interested in.

|
|  Sincerely yours,
|      Erwin Hoegerl
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